ILLUSTRATIONS 
The South Polar Regions. Coloured Map by 
J. G. Bartholomew End of Volume 
The Ramparts of the South Pole. (Photograph 
supplied by Professor E. von Drygalski.) . Frontispiece 
The World According to Homer Page 2 
The World According to Herodotus Facing p. 4 
The Habitable World and the Globe According to 
Strabo and Pomponius Mela 
The World According to Ptolemy 
The Theory of Impassable Zones Page 
Diagram of Spherical Earth, with no Antipodes. 
(After Rainaud.) 
The Earth, According to Cosmas Indicopleustes . . “ 
Wheel-Map of the Twelfth Century. (From Nor- 
denskiold’s Facsimile Atlas.) 
The Map of Macrobius 
The Sea Route to India on an Early Map. (From 
Nordenskiold’s Facsimile Atlas.) 
The Continuous Southern Ocean. (From Norden- 
skiold’s Facsimile Atlas.) 
The Map of Orontius, Southern Hemisphere. 
(Frcm Nordenskiold’s Facsimile Atlas.) . . 
Typical Antarctic Iceberg. (Photograph supplied 
by Professor E. von Drygalski.) .... 
Dalrymple’s Chart of the South Pacific, 1764 
Alexander Dalrymple 
Captain James Cook 
Cook’s Tracks near Bouvet Island Page 
The Ice Islands of the Antarctic (From Cook’s 
“ Second Voyage.”) Facing p. 
Royal Bay, Isle of Georgia. (From Cook’s 
“ Second Voyage.”) 
Cook’s Chart of the Isle of Georgia Page 
Elephant Island, one of the South Shetlands. 
(From D’Urville’s Atlas.) Facing p. 94 
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